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Flash Programming Tool missing in 3.3.81.6

Eric Eckenrode
Intellectual 275 points

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Hi,

CCS was updated by our customer to 3.3.81.6 and now the Flash Programming tool is not present.   They have the F2808 on their design which they still can connect  to, but now cannot program.   CCS has been re-installed with no success.   They even tried re-installing the old version and the Flash Programmer was still not present.  Any thoughts? 

FYI...   Operating system is Vista

Thanks,

Eric

  • Expert 1080 points

    I find that the flashburn ICON does not show unless you have a C2000 target setup in CCS.  See image below.  Do you see this? 

    It shoud also be a menu option under main menu: Tools->F28xx On-Chip Flash Programmer  (This menu option is also missing if the target is not a C2000 device)

  • Intellectual 570 points

    I realize that this is an old thread, but I'm having the exact same problem. I think it's a Vista issue, as I can't see the plugin in Vista, but I can on a different machine running XP. Can a TI employee confirm this?

  • in reply to BryanHughes
    Expert 1845 points

    I just went through this again on my Vista laptop, and fortunately it's not a Vista issue.

    The plugin is from the install on the Spectrum Digital driver disk, or Spectrum Digital website. The plugin needs to be enabled after it is installed.

    1. Once you have this installed, open up code composer (make sure you have a board specified), and go into the Help/About menu.

    2. Click on Component Manager button in the About CCS window.

    3. Expand the Texas Instruments Inc. tree on the left. Towards the bottom of the list, you will see all the plugins that are not enabled (checkbox not checked).

    4. Enable/check the Flash28xx <c:\ccstudio_v3.3\plugins\flash28xx>   plugin. (if you expand this plugin, you will see the description of the plugin.)

     

  • in reply to Tim11828
    Prodigy 120 points

    I'm having this same problem on Vista.  I've gone into the About/Help menu and enabled the plugin but I don't get the icon or the Tools menu entry.

    Any ideas?

  • in reply to Mark Fiedler
    Expert 1845 points

    Try shutting down CCS and restarting. Also, verify that the plug-in is in the directory that it says it is, using Windows Explorer.

  • in reply to Tim11828
    Prodigy 120 points

    I've shut down CCS several times.  I even rebooted windows once.  I checked the files were in the right locations.  I checked and unchecked the box in the help/about dialog several times.  Nothing seems to work.

     

  • in reply to Mark Fiedler
    Expert 1845 points

    I have seen this happen even on Windows XP. I had to completely uninstall all the Spectrum Digital stuff, and then re-install.

  • in reply to Tim11828
    Prodigy 120 points

    Turns out I needed administrative access for the Help/About/Component Manager changes to stick.

    Once I got that set up, everything started to work.  I thought I had administrative access, but in actuality I only had it on the network domain and not the local machine domain.  It was a pain to fix, but once I did, then everything started to work.

  • in reply to Mark Fiedler
    TI__Expert 3020 points

    Mark,

    you are right that you need administrative privileges in order to install CCSv3.x succesfully. If you don't have admin rights it can appear that the installation completed succesfully, but certain modules were actually not registered successful or properly. To check whether this is the case, please open the component manager (CCS->Help->About->Component Manager) and browse for "Texas Instruments Inc.->Flash28xx", if the box for this entry is checked, it should be fine if you had admin right for the installation. If you installed from a normal user or even power user account, it looks like all went well, but actually the CCS installer was lacking the appropriate rights to write to the registry. Please try to manually register the plugin:

    If you go into <install dir>\plugins\Flash28xx you should be able to run regsvr32 on Flash28xx.ocx (in a command prompt just run "regsvr32 flash28xx.ocx") to manually register the plug-in.

     

    I hope this helps,

    Magnus